Pedestal for railway rolling stock



Feb-27, 1923. 1,446,912.

R. LESTER.

PEDESTAL FOR RAILWAY ROLLING STOCK.

HLED SEPT-28, 1922.

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Patented Feb. 27, 1923.

ui'rr. earns RAYMOND LESTER, or Jncxsonv ntn, LORI A.

PEDESTAL roe RAILWAY ROLLING sTooK. l

Ap plication filed September 28, 1922. Serial -N0.59 1,148. g

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RAYMOND LESTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jacksonville, in the county of Duval and State of Florida, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pedestals for Railway Rolling Stock, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention consists of a pedestal for railway rolling stock.

Objects of the invention are to provide a pedestal equipped with wear take up members for increasing the longevity of the pedestal; to provide wear plates which may be applied, without unreasonable expense, to standard journal boxes and faced with wear elements which engage the journal boxes to augment the durability of the pedestal, insure evenness of wear on the latter and permit replacement of the wear plates with facility and expedition. I

The above and other objects of this 1nvention will be better understood from the following description of the present preferred form of the invention taken in connection with the accompanying drawings wherein Fig. 1 is a front elevational view of a pedestal constructed in accordance with this invention;

Fig. 2 is an end elevational view of the same;

Fig. 3 is a rear elevational view thereof;

Fig. i is a cross sectional view taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a front elevational view of a slightly modified form of pedestal; and

Fig. 6 is a vertical sectional view of the form of pedestal shown in Fig. 5;

In the drawings a pedestal frame or body 7 is shown which 'is adapted for use with journal boxes of standard configuration and embodies parallelly arranged jaws 8 which may be of the skeleton type illustrated in Fig. 2. The outer faces of the jaws 8, both front and rear, have ribs 9 formed thereon each of which is provided with a recess 10 the terminal walls 11 of which are chamfered. By preference, the recesses 10 extend from a point in proximity to the upper wall of the journal box receiving recess of the pedestal, downwardly to. a point in proximity to the lower terminals of-the jaws 8.

Each of the recesses 10 is adapted for the reception of a complementally formed wear plate 12. Each of the wear plates is preferably made ofsteelqor .other iriaterial-of equivalent integrity. The terminals of each plate are chamferedfor snug engagement withthe chamfered'wall's 11 of the recesses 10. When the wear plates 12 are mounted in the recesses 10 theinner faces of the plates are flush with thevertical inner walls of the jaws 8 as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. It will be observed, however, upon reference to Figs. 2 and 4 of the drawings, that the inner margins of the wear plates 12 extend inwardly beyond-the inner margins of the jaws 8 to I vided for each jaw as shown in the form of invention illustrated in Figs. 5 an'd6. These plates, as indicated at 14, have the lateral margins thereof chamfered, as indicated at 15, for engagement with the correspondingly chamfered walls 11? of. the recesses 10? formed in the jaws 8. l The plates 14; are r relatively thicker than the plates 12 so that each of said plates 14 provides a protruding 1 breast which projects appreciably beyond the inner walls of the jaws 8.

The plates 14: are urged into the recesses llfrom the;

sides of the latter in an obvious manner.

The terminals of the plate 14 project beyond the outer faces of the jaws ,8 to provide overhanging lips 13 which protect exposed faces of the jaws. t

It is of course to be understood that I am not limited to the specific construction 1 of recesses formed in the jaws of the pedestal, the location of these recesses or the contours of the plates employed. However, the herei in disclosed forms of invention will produce effective results and .may be applied in a practical manner to standard pedestals.

Other changes may be made in the invention within the scope of the appended claims.

What is claimed is f eluding a frame embodying a journal box embracing jaws provided with recesses hav-I ing chamfered walls, and wear plates engageable in said recesses and provided with its l 1. A pedestal for railway rolling stock inchamfe-red margins which "complement said walls and frictionally engage the latter to prevent displacement of the plates.

2. A pedestal for railwayrolling stock including a frame embodying journal box engaging jaws each of which is provided with a recess, and a wear plate engageable underpressure in each recess and. equipped with an extension to protect exposed portions of said jaws substantially as described. A pedestal for. railway rolling stock comprising a body including journal box embracing j aws provided with recesses having ch amfered walls, complemental'ly formed plates .engageable in said recesses and equi ped wlth protrudlng breasts for engagement with the journal box.

4. A pedestal for railway rolling stock including journal box embracing jaws each of which has a dovetailed recess therein, and 

